FPGA-implementation of a holographic pattern-matching algorithm

In this paper, we demonstrate the FPGA implementation of a massively parallel, non-Boolean pattern-matching algorithm. The algorithm is based on the concepts of optical computing: quasi-optical wave equations are solved numerically, using FPGA-accelerated hardware. The FPGA-based wave-equation solver is very well parallelizable, so the resulting pattern-matching algorithm will also be amenable to mega-core architectures.